In the 90's we had Photoshop bake-offs to convince us the PowerPC was overwhelmingly superior, which in benchmarks it was, while the rest of the ecosystem was in shambles for the average user. Seen this movie before.

Have you been to San Jose lately? I'll take anywhere over that shit hole. There's more trash on on the side of the highways than most landfills. The downtown is so stabby you'd need an armed escort to feel safe. I left that pile of a once very great city 5 years ago when it like most of the rest of the bay area slid into 3rd world status. No i was only making 130k so definitely below poverty level, i mean if you can afford one of the 120 so 15 million dollar homes up the road in palo alto around stanford by all means, but then you'll just be staring out at the line of broken down rv's that "the help" are forced to live in 5 days a week to provide the service industry. But then that's the new norm for California and the people that recognize it for shit hole it is are long gone. But yeah moving the Houston isn't going to save HP.

It's hardley "Malware". Companies have been doing this for over 60 friggin years. Ever heard of Readers Digest? It's not a privacy issue and I'm glad they are doing it. Just a bunch of dumb-ass bloggers scrambling to add comments like they're In-the-know.